Cuando se encuentran las especies

We are increasingly accustomed to considering our pets part of the family, yet we still refer to them as "companion animals," as if they were nothing more than new guardian angels. In contrast to this overly narrow view, Donna Haraway proposes a much more fertile and challenging notion: that of companion species, the network of human beings, animals, and other organisms, territories, and technologies with whom we share bread, worlds, and histories. Because we have never been alone. We are the result of constant encounters, alliances, dependencies, clashes, and negotiations with all kinds of creatures: dogs, bacteria, laboratory mice, fungi, grains and plants, our gut flora. Navigating these zones of contact through biology, philosophy, and feminism, Haraway invites us to consider what we do with the beings we live with and what they do with us. Thus, we encounter a wooden and mossy dog, frenetic agility competitions, industrial chicken farms, Haraway's father, who made crutches and a wheelchair his constant companions, and, of course, Cayenne Pepper and Roland, the dogs with whom she has shared her life. Because the title of this book, probably her most personal, should also be interpreted as a question: When do species meet? When we turn to one another, when we affect and are affected, when vulnerability and strength appear mixed and indistinguishable.